Obama takes coward's approach to Syria

President Barack Obama once again has taken the cowardly approach to a difficult decision. For months, the Commander-in-Chief has been ranting about Syria's purported gassing of its own citizens and the duty of the free world to act on the Syrian citizens' behalf. "Lines in the sand" have been drawn, erased, redrawn, and then erased again. The entire world has yawned as deadline after deadline have been issued by the Obama administration for President Bashar al-Assadto step down.

It appeared that this week things finally were coming to a head. Most of the U.S. press was predicting a unilateral attack by Obama within the next few days. Obama seemed to promise that an attack was eminent - just as soon as a few final details were ironed out.

Finally,word came the president was leaving the final decision to Congress. The Congress had been preaching that only they had the right to send troops into conflict. Obama soundly disagreed with this position - until now, when the world's eyes were turned to him for such a decision. Again, as usual, the "Waffler-in-Chief" left himself the option to disagree and nullify the Congress' decision on the matter.

This is the type of leadership that the free world has had to look toward for the past five years. Is it no wonder the political power and leverage of our nation is scorned by the world's leaders and its citizens?

While the world was expecting staunch and iron-willed leadership, in the manner of Roosevelt, Truman and Reagan, it got decisions reminiscent of Jimmy Carter, or worse.

This great nation deserves more.

As for myself, I do not believe that we should unilaterally interfere in the affairs of a sovereign nation, such as Syria, even when its led by a ruthless dictator and killer. Until other world powers - such as the U.K., France, Germany and Canada - join in the decision to intervene in Syria, we also should refrain.

However, the decision to do this should be firm and decisive. In this way, the citizens of Syria (and the rest of the world) would not eagerly await an attack that will not ever occur. Just as in the tale of the boy who cried wolf, our threats of action have become meaningless.

Walter Miller

Hebron

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Obama takes coward's approach to Syria

President Barack Obama once again has taken the cowardly approach to a difficult decision.